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Hmm. I think Final Fantasy Grand Masters is interesting idea and I'll check it out when it's releases. I understand the reason to drop ps2 and 360 support along with the mobile tablet support. I guess this is better news than just shutting down the servers.
This is sad news. Like many others, I always figured I might go back one day and visit my beloved XI Elvaan. That was the game that introduced me to mmo's and a lot of the friends I've kept over the past decade. While it's still on pc, I'd not likely visit it again while it has a separate subscription.
I don't think some read that correctly. FFXI is no longer getting any major expansions after this one, not stopping content all together. If the game is still supported after it, likely they will make small episodes or battle content to take on. I doubt they release a mobile version if they didn't want to continue in some fashion with the game. For now, I see it as their last attempt to pull some people in. Dropping PS2/360 was one of the best things they could of done. Now with only PC/mobile limitations, they can do more to the game like putting in that UI they have been talking about for years and the limitations of the PS2 HDD is no longer a thing, so may not have to result to back tracking to previous content all the time.
Even though I do not play FFXI anymore, I hope the ideas they have brought up could bring some life into it. While a mobile online FF game may not sound appealing to veterans and dedicated PC gamers, but it does look appealing to the average person and can generate some numbers back. I do hope SE succeeds and puts the effort into squeezing a few more years out of it. FFXIV may be the thing now, but I hope FFXI can stand side by side with it for at least a few more years.
I remember one day I had completely off, I was a Whm in Valkurm, and I started early in the day, got into a group, we'd start on the highlands side and as we leveled up we'd work our way across, and whenever someone had to go, we always had a replacement waiting right behind them, and if we had do we'd just move back a few areas until they leveled up. Best typewriter analogy ever. I played for 8 hours straight because usually I'd sit there waiting ages for a party.
Oddly enough I'd buy the expansions, but I never got much farther than... erm, whatever that place is where you can get your earliest airship pass. I got there and found myself waiting ages for a group again and gave up.
I'm not putting FFXI down, in the end I just quit because it required a level of dedication I just can't give to a game. But you never saw me going onto the FFXI forums going "Ermagerd too hard make easier", I just found other games to play that suited my personal tastes better.